Food Stamps Gone Wild {THE SO-CALLED FARM BILL}Foodstampsare now sent to an astonishing 1 out of every 7 Americans. Foodstampspending has more than doubled since 2008. New reports of fraud and abuse are coming out daily.Yet the Senate recently passed a disastrous $970 billion so-called farm bill that was really a welfare bill – 78 percent of the spending went forfoodstamps. And the House may do the same any day.The House version spends a total $957 billion - that's almost a trillion dollars we don't have. And fully $756 billion of that (79 percent!) is forfoodstamps.

This disastrous bill was supported by all but four Republicans on the House Agriculture Committee. It includes no drought relief, although lobbyists are cynically exploiting the drought to advance it.Quite simply, we cannot afford another massive spending bill.It is a disaster to have 1 in 7 American onfoodstamps; we need to fix the economy so people have jobs and don't needfoodstamps, not lock this in for another five years.Republicans were elected to the House to stop wasteful spending - this is their chance to actually do it.The vote could come any day. Please take action now.Time to start writing emails to your representatives.......today.!!!! We must let them know that we are ON TO THEM!Tell your representatives toVote NO on welfare-packed Farm Bill!

I also recommend calling their office closest to you. The staff members are usually very good about relaying your concerns. Here in Massachusetts, I call often. I've written and called both state and federal representatives. It just pushes your point through even more.
Thanks and good luck.

I have a question to ask you guys.......The article said....".food stamps are SENT.".....
You no longer have to GO TO GET THEM????Pick them up, sign for them....show ID to make sure that it you are entitled???? Do they mean sent, as in USPS....in the mailbox every month?????? Just askin'........thanks.

OMG.....even cutting out the middleman (in this case the bankrupt Post Office) and just electronically making deposits into these cards, that they have no ACCOUNTABILITYon????????????? POOOOOOOOO! Now I am really angry!

You know? Back a couple of yrs ago, back around the end of 2009 or beginning of 2010, Pelosi discovered that there was about $38Bil in the Post Office's Reserve, and she said to Obama, "That money is just sitting there doing nothing. There must be some way we can use it." I knew then that the Post Office was going to be in trouble before long!!!

There are now more food stamp recipients and welfare then there are TAXPAYERS actually paying into the system. Add that to all the overhead the government has going out and you have a CRASH... IT NOT ROCKET SCIENCE to figure out the math . WHEN you have more GOING OUT then you have coming in then you crash and burn..... Aka OVERDRAWN. We have crashed and in the process of a slow but sure burn with no signs of recovery. UNEMPLOYMENT still soaring and ECONOMY still in the trash can.the really sad fact is that these people and the ones that support the busting out welfare system are not seeing the looming disaster coming up very soon.

With the economy as bad as it is, and so many people out of work, the only reason why you don't see people standing in lines for soup kitchens now like they did during the depression, is because everyone is given food stamps. The problem comes in that Obama's government is actively SEEKING OUT people to give food stamps to, not just supplying them to people who truly need them. I heard that his administration is actually working with Mexico to get the word out, that there are food stamps available in the U.S.! (I wish I had saved that link to the story.)

Unfortunately, there have always been lazy people who don't mind living off of the govt., and those who live by scamming the govt., but what's really sickening is to see this POTUS spend more time and effort on giving away free food stamps than to do anything to help companies get back on stable ground, and start hiring people again! Have people heard yet that Obama's gone to 109 (at last count) fund-raisers this year, but he hasn't held ONE meeting with Jeff Immelt, his Jobs Czar?! Seems the only job he is interested in saving is his own--everybody else, have some food stamps and shut up!

I made my choices a long time ago to be an outcast. I need nothing for free. They can do whatever they wish with my tax dollars. Besides I'm a white male in my 50's I don't qualify for Government handouts now if I was a 50 year old unemployed illegal alien from mexico I'd be singing a different tune and driving a new Cadillac that you and everyone else paid for.